Joey

Tenure-track researcher | phenotypic plasticity | population dynamics | seasonality | long-term studies | birds | 🇨🇦🇳🇱🇪🇺

[Joey @jbburant]

@_aufgegleist Imagine being the donkey with the mountain bike.

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@markgurman Dutch iPhone sales are about to skyrocket 😂

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@antoniogm Swift Current, Saskatchewan is 1200+ km from both Hudson Bay and the Pacific, which is why it’s so miserably cold in winter compared to say, Prague. The furthest one can get from a large moderating water body in Europe is maybe 600-700 km (in Poland, Ukraine, etc).

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@antoniogm Latitude, elevation, and continentality explain similar amounts of surface temperature variation in North America and Europe. It’s primarily a difference one of intercept (caused by the Gulf Stream) and range (NA is massive with greater distances from coasts + fewer inland seas)

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@thaisaustin @kevsaucebro Something Washington and London have in common!

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@christasyd Many successes in your language ventures!

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@harpersealtako2 @vampirepoem Alas, it's true.

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@christasyd 😂 judged by the company they keep?

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@harpersealtako2 @vampirepoem I am a native English speaker, and have been to all four cities and many besides. Thanks though.

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@FixYouthsFuture @llallawg As opposed to the set of customary measurements? I’m pro- masses/volumes (g/mL), just pointing out the obvious that it’s not the quantity but the ratio of the measurements (and whole ingredients, eggs, etc) that matters. But really, any standard teacup and spoon will mostly do.

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@harpersealtako2 @vampirepoem This has basically nothing to do with speaking English, and everything to do with your worldview as shaped by your national identity.

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@Jaboolie Italians don’t say “pass-tuh”, that ending sound (called a schwa) doesn’t exist. Both As sound the same when an Italian says pasta.

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@Strangeland_Elf If you can put a W after the first A (i.e. “pawsta”) and it doesn’t change your pronunciation, you’re pronouncing pasta incorrectly.

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@Strangeland_Elf If you can put a W after the first A (i.e. “pawsta”) and it doesn’t change your pronunciation, you’re pronouncing pasta incorrectly.

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@harpersealtako2 @vampirepoem So you changed the definition to fit your environment. Thats normal, but doesn’t make you correct.
Germans and French have different lifestyles and behaviours (culture), languages and histories. American culture is diverse but homogenized in a way European cultures are not.

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@LiberaNos_AMalo @number_pizza111 The American chauvinist delusion, alive and well.

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@hi_im_envy This is different from the original point. English is trying to make 44 sounds with 26 letters. It’s not a phonetic language. English accents/dialects also lack phonetic agreement on how graphemes are pronounced “in place”.

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@hi_im_envy Vowels are gonna sound “R coloured” if you don’t pronounce the actual Rs. Father and farther do not sound the same in “standard” (North) American English pronunciation

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@cljack Americans pretending they live in a flat, egalitarian society 😂 the Dutch do the same thing and it’s just not true. Like at all.

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@FixYouthsFuture @llallawg So that’s the trick! You could use any of these cups as a measurer, assuming you have an appropriately matched set of spoons.